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Bubur Manado (Manado Porridge)

Ingredients:
- 250 gram long grain rice
- 2 ears of corn, kernels stripped from the cobs
- water
- 5 long string beans
- ? cup spinach leaves
- ? cup kangkung leaves (water convolvulus)
- 200 gram pumpkin, cut in 2 x 2 cm pieces of 1 cm thickness
- 20 kemangi (Horappa basil) leaves
- salt to taste
Directions:
Tomato Sauce
- Mix finely sliced red chilies, bird’s eye chilies, shallots and tomatoes together.
- Add salt and stir until everything is well-blended.
Porridge
- Boil the rice together with the corn kernels and the salt in enough water to cover rice to a depth of 6 cm
- After the water comes to a boil, add the long beans, cut in 5 cm lengths. Cook until the rice is half done; add the spinach leaves, the kangkung, the pumpkin, and the basil. Simmer tightly covered, until rice is done. Remove.
- Serve with tomato sauce and fried salty fish.